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Set of seventeen 'life model' magic lantern slides which was used in telling the story of "Gabriel Grub; or the Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton" using a magic lantern projector. A booklet accompanies the set of slides. Incomplete set of slides.

The story was based on a chapter of Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers", originally published in serialised form between March 1836 and October 1837.

Description:

Colour glass lantern slide.

Description Of Content:

Image of a man sitting near grave stones in a cemetery. The man holds a shovel and is drinking from a clay bottle.

Acquisition Information:

Loan & Subsequent Donation from Australian Film Institute (AFI)

Acknowledgement:

Source: Museum Victoria

Discipline:

Technology

Dimensions:

82 mm (Height), 82 mm (Width)

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Tagged with:

entertainment, lantern slides, christmas

Themes this item is part of:

Images & Image Making Collection, Francis Collection

Primary Classification:

PHOTOGRAPHY

Secondary Classification:

Images (To Be Classified)

Tertiary Classification:

images (to be classified)

Inscriptions:

Text, sticker on slide: Gabriel Grub.Text, top edge of slide: He sat himself down on a flat tombstone.